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Individual families adopted a variety of conventions concerning ringlet curls and other hair styling. This was especially the case in the late-19th century when it it was not just very young boys wearing ringlets. For some reason, mothers in the late-19th century lost all inhibitions about gender styling. We suspect that many mothers always wanted fancy clothing and hair styling for their boys and looked forward with sadness when they would have to cut their son's curls. The Fauntleroy Craze gave them the ability to postpone that day. Here it was almost always the mother deciding on hair styles for the girls and younger boys. The family dynamic varied from family to family. In some cases father might intervene when mother continued to do their son's hair in ringlets beyond the age he felt approprisae. There were several different alternatives that mothers had. We note some mothers doing the hair of both their sons and daughters in curls. We have found a number of examples in the photoraphic record.
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